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Chinaman
Fri, August 03 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 7: Some minor West Indians
Inshan Ali was a specialist Chinaman bowler. Bernard Julien was known mostly for bowling seam. And Roy Fredericks was a batsman who bowled at times.
Mon, July 30 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 6: Maurice Leyland, Denis Compton, Arthur Morris
Maurice Leyland was probably the person to coin the word 'Chinaman'. Denis Compton and Arthur Morris practised the art, too.
Mon, July 30 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 5: Johnny Wardle
Johnny Wardle, a left-arm finger-spinner, took to bowling Chinaman and found reasonable success on Australian pitches.
Mon, July 30 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 4: Garry Sobers
Garry Sobers bowled outswing, inswing, and finger-spin. He also bowled wrist-spin...
Mon, July 30 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 3: Lindsay Kline
Lindsay Kline averaged 22.82 with ball in Test cricket, doing particularly well overseas. Alas, he played only 13 Tests.
Mon, July 30 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 2: Chuck Fleetwood-Smith
“If ever the result of a Test match can be said to have been decided by a single ball, this was the occasion,” wrote Don Bradman of Chuck Fleetwood-Smith's dismissal at Adelaide, 1936-37.
Fri, July 27 2018
Left-arm wrist spinners in cricket, part 1: Ellis Achong
Part 1 of the series on Chinaman bowlers deals with Ellis Achong, often wrongly credited with the first popular exponent of the genre of delivery.
Tue, July 17 2018
Chinaman bowling, Kuldeep Yadav and half-baked articles
The guise of decoding the cause of failure of the English batsmen, the article just quotes a few known facts, ignores some very relevant ones, and claims that the cause-effect relationship is irrevocably established. This is a major problem with analysis carried out by time-constrained journalists.
Thu, April 12 2018
Wisden replaces Chinaman with slow left-arm wrist-spin bowlers
So far there have been 30 Chinaman bowlers in international cricket.
Mon, April 03 2017
Let’s do away with the ‘racist’ term Chinaman… and why stop there?
There are some who have pointed out that the type of delivery and the word associated with it predates Achong, and specifically that the word was used in the English grounds in the 1920s, a good part of a decade before Achong plied his stuff.